So perhaps it should be no surprise that when Eric Schneiderman learned that a person operating within his jurisdiction had bought a drug used by constituents with AIDS and sick pregnant ladies and jacked the price up 55-fold, he wanted in—especially after seeing the tsunami of hate inundating emo-loving Martin Shkreli. But, as IT2.0 shows, Eric Schneiderman is not content to merely bandwagon. Eric Schneiderman goes for the unique, original angle. And once again, he's found it.

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The attorney general’s office is looking not so much at the price increase itself but at whether Turing may have violated antitrust rules by restricting distribution of the drug, Daraprim, as a way to thwart generic competition, according to a letter sent by the attorney general’s office to Turing on Monday….The drug has been removed from distribution by the usual wholesalers and by retail drugstores. Patients can get the drug from Walgreens’ specialty pharmacy, and hospitals have been given a special phone number to order it.

Such restricted distribution can make it more difficult for generics manufacturers to get the samples of a brand-name product they need to do the required testing to show that their generic copy is equivalent to the original…While the move to restricted distribution for Daraprim occurred in June, before Turing acquired the drug, it might have been a prerequisite for the sale.